Encourage tinkering with ideas, relationships, connections. Set up situations where students have to find information not readily available in school texts. Provide opportunity for students to design open-ended explorations of the concept. Provide multiple options so students can plan a unique "proof" of learning.
Groups prepare drawings, descriptions, etc. of real life situations.
Objective: To enable students to identify situations in their own lives which parallel those in the films.
Activity: Small groups of two pairs of partners each will prepare drawings, descriptions, demonstrations, or dramatizations of real life situations.
Assessment: Level of understanding and teamwork in developing scenarios.